You know, if you don't like the look of a book, you don't have to read it?

While it is not ideal for "George" to fall down a ventilation shaft and be "black as a N word with soot", it is more important that the main characters show generosity, inclusion and fairness to everyone regardless of social status, ethnicity, and if they identify as the opposite sex.

Anne (who would now be described as Cis )could have told Julian to take a hike with his sexist remarks, as George did.

When I heard that Jim Davidson is banned at various theatre's I was shocked. No one is forcing nobody to watch a comedian.

I have seen Davidson throw a strop at a charity event.

Green Man wrote:
When I heard that Jim Davidson is banned at various theatre's I was shocked. No one is forcing nobody to watch a comedian.

I have seen Davidson throw a strop at a charity event.

I am not a great fan of his act, but he was hilarious on Celebrity Big Brother, even when he was saying nothing.

Honey wrote:
Green Man wrote:
When I heard that Jim Davidson is banned at various theatre's I was shocked. No one is forcing nobody to watch a comedian.

I have seen Davidson throw a strop at a charity event.

I am not a great fan of his act, but he was hilarious on Celebrity Big Brother, even when he was saying nothing.

I am not a fan either, personally I find his jokes predictable and his stories are boring. However he shouldn't be banned, his recent comments on Gary Glitter is probably his way to be edgy. However I agree on him about political correctness killing comedy.

In the 80s in New York comedy clubs were the thing. There was a black priest who would go in to race but no one was offended. Even when a white comedian go in to the same thing near enough it was just as funny.

People knew how to laugh at themselves back then.

Honey wrote:
Green Man wrote:
When I heard that Jim Davidson is banned at various theatre's I was shocked. No one is forcing nobody to watch a comedian.

I have seen Davidson throw a strop at a charity event.

I am not a great fan of his act, but he was hilarious on Celebrity Big Brother, even when he was saying nothing.

I remember the fuss about Frank Carson's trending room

Loved Enid Blyton's books when i was a kid

Ms Blyton had critics before she died in 1968. A 1966 Guardian article accused her of racism over her book Little Black Doll - where a toy named 'Sambo' is only loved by his owner once his ‘ugly black face’ is washed ‘clean’ by rain. In 1960 the publisher Macmillan refused to publish her story The Mystery That Never Was, claiming it had an 'unattractive touch of old-fashioned xenophobia’.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9695159...nglish-Heritage.html

I remember a Noddy and Big Ears book I had as a child in which Noddy is driving through the woods at night when he's waylaid by a gang of golliwogs, who strip him naked and steal his car. It's the only thing about Enid Blyton stories that I can remember.

That quote about George in the ventilation shaft would be easy to sanitise. Gangs of golliwogs not so much. A couple of the original Brothers Grimm stories were anti-Semitic and it's the sanitised versions you get in the shops now.

Jo wrote:
Ms Blyton had critics before she died in 1968. A 1966 Guardian article accused her of racism over her book Little Black Doll - where a toy named 'Sambo' is only loved by his owner once his ‘ugly black face’ is washed ‘clean’ by rain. In 1960 the publisher Macmillan refused to publish her story The Mystery That Never Was, claiming it had an 'unattractive touch of old-fashioned xenophobia’.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9695159...nglish-Heritage.html

I remember a Noddy and Big Ears book I had as a child in which Noddy is driving through the woods at night when he's waylaid by a gang of golliwogs, who strip him naked and steal his car. It's the only thing about Enid Blyton stories that I can remember.

That quote about George in the ventilation shaft would be easy to sanitise. Gangs of golliwogs not so much. A couple of the original Brothers Grimm stories were anti-Semitic and it's the sanitised versions you get in the shops now.

Maybe she had a word with herself in-between Noddy and the famous five? Some of those stories are very dark indeed, but I love the Van Der Beek illustrations.

I never read her books, they didn't appeal to me. So I am not sure if their contents. However they should not be deleted. I loved the Three Investigators novels when I was a kid.